Cable Question.

[Shakezilla]

Ok so I have an IDE HD drive and a single IDE cable wont connect both the CD/DVD burner and the Hardrive. SO using two ide cables should I set the hardrive to master and the CD/DVD burner to what, slave or cable select since thet are on seperate IDE cables.

Thanks

 

[carl67lp]

Being on separate cables would indicate that they're on separate IDE channels (i.e., they're connected to two separate IDE ports on the motherboard). Thus, you have one device per channel.

In that case, the hard drive would be set to Master (or "Single" if your hard drive has such a setting). Your optical device would likewise be set to Master.

If you had multiple devices on one cable, you'd set them to Master for the device on the end of the cable and Slave for the device in the middle. Alternatively, some devices (at least for me) only seemed to be recognized in the BIOS when I set them to Cable Select, but in your case you'll want to go with the paragraph above.

Incidentally, it's a good idea in general to put optical devices on one channel and hard drives on another, due to differences in data transfer rates.

 

[Shakezilla]

Thanks thats exactly what I needed, thanks for the quick response.

 

[carl67lp]

Thanks thats exactly what I needed, thanks for the quick response.

A pleasure.

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